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An Act to amend an act entitled An Act establishing a permanent revenue. 1793 19 (1793)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0010 and id is 1 raw text is: C 1 -A P. XTIT I ACT to ameI a:, ai e,.titled Ai Aa efhb7ZJ ir Pr- manet r cnite...- Approve:t .DX.cenber 2- 'j z79-. TIEREAS great inconveniencies accrue to perfon ra jjU who hold land -or, lands in feveral counties, from. t : manner prefcribed 'by the-above recited at for lifling the fame with tile Cominiffioners. For remedy- wheteof, Sec. i. Be it e4a&d by' tke General Almbly, That it Phal! be lawful for any perfTh or perfons, to give in all his her or their land, lying in this- otate, to the commilfioners of the tax in which he ihe or they fhalltrelide, Ipeclijying the quantity of acres in each trad, and the county in whicli it liei, and the land; b.given in fhail be as effectually fe- cU'.d fro -a fofeiu;'e as if they had been given, in- Lo Le comaiiffiu.ners of the difftt, in which they lie. Sec. 2. A't.tbe it fii .-:.er e.wa6?e-4 That the lands lih th15 S:ate fhall be divided into' three clafles, that is to fay, firff, lecond and third rate, 4 he hirlf rate land fhall be elhftfrd at three fhilliags, fecond rate land at- one fililling and fixpence tnd thiid rate land at nine pence per hundred acres, and .i' the fame proportion fr a greater orleffer-quantity. -And liil he ricn lantis in Fayette county iall be coiifidered as the fiandard of firli rate land. Sec. 3. XIi.l hbe it f ht:er enaeat'k That it flhall- be the- di- t;.' ot LhC comn iffidners, w'hen they receive an - hcotilit of 1:[flds from any perln, and enter fame un ihr liit ta afcertain to ih beft of their know[edge the.re of e- iery tra& or- tras of land fo given in, and- note ir their lilt whether it is firlt, fecond, or third rateO Sec. 4. I be it .futher e:49ged, That the 616-,,in ikfle fhall be ohfi-rved by the faid'commfilIioners In rating a- iy tra& of land; where the greater part- of a t-a&falh ill their opinion, be fuperior in point of qualiky-to'eeond rate land, it fiall be den minatedfirftrate; wh belegreatei p'art of a trat thall be inferor fo firft rate and ftierioi' to third' rate if point .f 'ualiy, it fhalt be denoiliated: feq c'rid rate ; and Wherd thd-greater - part of -a &ra& of-land Ihall be jiferior tor fecond rate, it flivl1.'be denominated t6',ird rate lum*i-. And whi&e, any' cpmiffionr has -no kio vledge of any tra& of land given-fi;f and' isunalble to fty with certdity in what clafs fuch t-a& ought to b6 placed, it Ihalf be lawfilt for fucli cminiiflioner to-receivd i iformatibn on oath from the owner 6r afiy other perfon, c-,1-cerning tie quality-6f ffich land, and place if ii- that clafs tat. Ihfll appear to hii to bejuft- foili if a tiu nIrSe. Per-tons may lift all t h e i . l i w s m~ i t i 'e CMffiri410.o,C o' he :F. Li-'t il whichj Llei' live. Lands clA~rC. Stmr4ard ot hrft rate laiias, Cnmm*(Po-nev's duty in claiug lads. [,' A-

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